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Originally Posted by Rob McKee
Sorry, didn't mean to offend. I've found debate really changes little. It really is silly to debate. If I showed you scripture...would you change? I could show 15 scriptures to prove our doctrinal stance...and re- comment every comment but it wouldn't changed the minds of those that are determined to believe.
The only hope for those who have abandoned the truth their parents preached (like Dan) is to realize the power is gone from their lives and churches...of course they rarely admit it's because of their abandoning of the doctrine of separation. So they continue their search for a "spirit-filled breakthrough church that doesn't teach separation in lifestyle and they are still looking...
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Oh, in that post I wasn't even talking about you.
Prax's post just triggered one of my hot buttons.
Would I change if we discussed? Absolutely, if I believed you were correct. This is what many of us find offensive.... if we disagree with mainstream Pentecostal thought, you just write us off. We 'don't want to believe truth'. I was raised Pentecostal, my family is all Pentecostal. According to you, I've "left truth".
Do you know what this "leaving truth" has cost me personally? Trust me, the cost has been, and continues to be, enormous. I "left truth" because I no longer believed it to be true. I studied and studied, discussed and discussed, and I came to different conclusions than mainstream Pentecostals have come to. I could no longer walk before God with integrity while pretending to believe things I didn't truly believe.
I promise you I have an open mind. I want nothing more than to be right with God. If you could show me by scripture that I was wrong, absolutely I would change! But 'by scripture' I don't mean scripture that is looked at through the lens of Pentecostalism. I mean scripture that is looked at through no lens at all.... just plain and simple scripture, rightly divided, in historical context.
As far as the power being out of our churches? Certainly not true for my church. The power of God is just as real and strong in my church as it was in any Pentecostal church I've ever been in.
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